Antagonisms in the EU's neighbourhood

Since 2015, more than one million Syrians have fled their country for Europe. In order to facilitate their voluntary return, a safe and secure environment grounded in a functioning rule of law must first be established in Syria. In targeting this goal, the EU and its member...

Europe's Choice

Representation gaps cause populism: those who feel that they are poorly represented are more populist in their thinking and at the polls. The same also applies to the
2019 European elections. However, populist citizens only agree on two things:
they are sceptical towards...

Technical Appendix for Policy Paper "Estimating economic benefits of the Single Market for European countries and regions"

This is the technical appendix to the study "Estimating economic benefits of the Single Market for European countries and regions". It includes the all details on the gravity model used in the study and also explains the counterfactual construction and quantification...

Estimating economic benefits of the Single Market for European countries and regions

This study provides insights into the economic benefits of the European Single Market (SM) for countries and regions across Europe. Specifically, we evaluate the impact of the trade boosting effects of the SM on productivity, markups, product variety, welfare and the...

Policy Brief 1/2019: Europe's Choice

Representation gaps cause populism: those who feel that they are poorly represented are more populist in their thinking and at the polls. The same also applies to the 2019 European elections. However, the populist citizens only agree on two things: they are sceptical towards...

A missed opportunity – Five reasons why ESM reform will fail to deliver

In this policy brief, Lucas Guttenberg looks at the planned reform of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). He argues that while the reform is necessary to finally bring home the backstop for banking union, it clearly falls short of its initial ambition to also...

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is often described as one of the most innovative and far-reaching free trade agreements. It contains novel ways of dealing with many areas of trade policy that continue to be contentious, such as e-commerce,...

Brexit and German-British Production Chains

Germany and the United Kingdom are closely linked in global production networks. This study shows through a detailed analysis of value chains in which sectors linkages are particularly strong. It also analyses for both countries which sectors need to adjust their value...

Summary #SmartHealthSystems – Focus Europe

The #SmartHealthSystems study shows European Union Member States are advancing at different speeds in the digital transformation of the healthcare sector. Countries that are succeeding in digitalizing their healthcare systems feature an effective strategy, strong political...

The Hopeful, the Fearful and the Furious

The year 2019 will be an important one for the European Union (EU), not only because of Brexit or the possibility of an economic downturn, but also because of the upcoming European Parliament (EP) elections in May. For one, the outcome of the EP elections will be important...